Recent content by MarshallBryant

So do you determine inspiration by Feel? Anyone can feel like something they desire is inspired. It doesn't make it so.

God can inspire anything but confusion and contradiction, Therefore I choose the dependable scripture and judge everything else by it. Even the Bible has a few portions that do not claim divine inspiration, but only human advice. Now it can be good advice, but it's not divine inspiration.

This could be an independent legend or another adapted flood story based on the deluge. Some include the animals and some do not. If it does not, perhaps it is necessary to localize the flood to explain their survival. Who knows? What I found most interesting about the Chinese character history...

I look for these as independent confirmation of the Genesis account. The dispersion of the peoples after the flood would infer there should be a common history/story among the scattered peoples. Some will have a written account earlier than others; however, all will have some variation of how...

I just noticed the Chinese Characters Flood Story remnant indicating yet another Worldwide Flood story from antiquity. I know the Archeologists like to assume the "oldest" records are the most accurate, but this isn't necessarily the case. They have encouraged the story of Gilgamesh as the...

Just as the Church began before the destruction of Israel, is it not also possible the 70th Week of Daniel will begin before the Rapture? One of the pre-trib arguments is insistence that the 70th week can only commence with the Rapture. The appearance of tribulation Saints might be more easily...

Since there is no edit feature (advantages and disadvantages to not having edits), I must add that this is from the perspective of a traditional Baptist who is out of place in this forum.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - SAVED IMMEDIATELY / SANCTIFICATION PROMISED This is the view that I see in scripture. The statement's perspective is from the point of view of completion. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - SAVED IMMEDIATELY / SANCTIFICATION IMMEDIATELY. My problem with this...

It will be interesting to see the responses. The term is used by traditional Baptists to describe the process by which the Holy Spirit changes your outer being to match your new inner being after receiving Salvation and the Holy Spirit from Jesus. We are Justified and Redeemed by the Power of...

I was not thinking about Maccabees as being apocryphal books. I was thinking more about those which all agree are outside Canon of the major denominations. Rightly or wrongly, I categorize the disputed Apocrypha/Canon as a separate category broadly called the Catholic extra books.

I guess this is as good an area to explain my Icon. I have been collecting coins for over 50 years and specialize in the earliest US Large Cents. I found my ICON and determined it was a Very Rare variety (11th known) with fine detail, but some condition issues. Even though it had details in the...

I'm saddened that the split continues. I was in Paul Pressler's Sunday School class at First Baptist Houston and actually became a delegate to the Kansas City Convention which I believe was in 1980. The fracture was already well under way as the Universities led the way toward serving desires of...

Just a quick point of view. Apocrypha to me is like the mythology that popped up around George Washington about Never Telling a Lie and throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac. They gave entertaining stories about real people for the purpose of encouraging desired behaviors and virtues...

Basics This is not a treatise but a very rough sketch: Pre Millennialism - The millennial is a future event. Post Millennialism - We are already in the Millennial Ahmillenialism - The Millennium is figurative and not an actual event. Pre Tribulation Rapture - Christ returns in the air to...